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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.

Tom Peters

The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Defend Thing Worse Yesterday
But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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Miserable Stuff Trying Way
The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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Deviltry Mad Passion Race
Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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Essay Music Spoken Tempered
I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you’ve got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
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Coffee Kids Passion
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train
What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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Next Strategy Volunteer
Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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Enemy Procrastination Thinking Worst
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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Business Educational Inspirational
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Digital Library People
Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
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Buzz Figure Sneakers Today Transcend
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change

Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.

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